Technology giant Apple is considering opening offices at a second location in Israel. After launching their Haifa offices last year, Calcalist reports that the company is looking into renting office-space at Tel Aviv’s Azrielli towers.
Israeli cooking app Look & Cook, which was developed by Kinetic Art, was selected as one of only a handful of apps featured on Apple’s new iPad Mini campaign. The app features 44 recipes by Israeli chef Meir Adoni, with easy to follow step-by-step video instructions. The app utilizes voice recognition to enable the user to scroll through the recipe without touching the iPad.
Electronics giant Apple is opening a new development center in the town of Ra’anana. The new center, located in the town’s industrial zone, will be the third one opened by the company in Israel, joining the ones in Haifa and Herzliya. The center will employ 100 to 150 workers, all of which were recently laid-off from Texas Instruments’ development center.
Technology giant Apple, who suffered heavy criticism for its Apple Maps application, is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli social GPS company Waze. According to a report on Israeli technology blog Newsgeek, Apple offered $400 million for the acquisition, but it has not yet been confirmed by either company.
Apple has announced the top apps on its App Store for 2012. Among the top apps of the year, Israeli task management app Any.Do is featured on the ‘Intuitive Touch’ category and photography app GroupShot is on the ‘Photo & Video Magic’ category.
Electronic giant Apple is recruiting more Israeli workers. The company posted some 20 job offers on its official website for positions in Israel, most of which in the offices of recently acquired Anobit, located in Herzlia. Also, the company has posted a few job offers for its planned R&D center in Haifa.
Upon the release of Apple’s Passbook feature on iOS 6, Israeli startup BillGuard has integrated its acclaimed bill-tracking software into the feature. CEO Yaron Samid told technology blog TechCrunch that the company’s software has saved users roughly $1 million in the past 18 months.